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Re: Mutating keys

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On 8/18/05, Panu Kalliokoski <atehwa@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> This is a complicated issue.  My implementation currently adds the value
> from the _last_ association in the list, which is probably what you mean
> ty "added in the order they appear".  But because assoc&friends returns
> the first occurrence, picking the first value would make the API more
> consistent with alists.

This is a good point.  It's not uncommon to use acons without first checking
for the existence of the item in the list for efficiency and/or for
referentially
transparent updates of shared alists.  I think it might make sense to explicitly
require alist->hash-table to always reflect the first value in the alist.

-- 
Alex